Photography of Religious Architecture

A Guest Post by Janet Marquardt

We have featured the work of “Those That Precede” including Angelico Surchamp and the Editions Zodiaque in the past. In the next few days, we will be fortunate to have a guest post by Professor Janet T. Marquardt who has a new book on the Zodiaque publications going to the publishers this fall. The publication date is anticipated to be Fall 2013.

Dr. Janet Marquardt

Janet Marquardt holds the rank of distinguished professor at Eastern Illinois University where she has taught since receiving her Ph.D. in medieval art history from the University of California at Los Angeles in 1986. Besides numerous presentations and articles, she is author of the thematic textbook Frames of Reference: Art, History, and the World (with Stephen Eskilson, McGraw-Hill 2004), as well as a monograph on the post-Revolutionary history of the ruins at Cluny entitled From Martyr to Monument: The Abbey of Cluny as Cultural Patrimony (2007/2009).

She co-edited (with Alyce Jordan) the anthology Medieval Art after the Middle Ages (2009). Her forthcoming book on the Zodiaque publications is part of ongoing research into French Romanesque historiography. She also publishes on contemporary American women artists. She was a visiting professor at the Centre d’études supérieures de civilisation médiévale in Poitiers in 2006 and was a Research Fellow at Trinity College Dublin 2011.

Comments on Via Lucis

“There are people who take pictures, there are photographers, and then, there is Via Lucis. This is the most incredible collection of images from Medieval churches I have yet seen. These places are amazing to start with, but what Dennis Aubrey and PJ McKey accomplish in these spaces with a camera is breathtaking.”

“How do you do it – time after time after time – beautiful photographs that need no words and beautiful words that need no photographs? Combined they transport us to the deepest place of our inner selves. Your gifts of self – an eye for finding the beauty in these ancient buildings and your ability to capture that beauty and share it with others – those are your blessings on those of us fortunate enough to know of your site and follow it.” – Jay Fredrich